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Now on BBC News it's time now for The Papers | :00:00. | :00:19. | |
Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
With me are the political commentator Vincent Moss | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
Today's front pages, starting with... | :00:26. | :00:31. | |
The Sunday Times leads on North Korea AND says | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
President Trump is prepared to strike Korean nuclear sites. | :00:34. | :00:39. | |
The Mail on Sunday also leads with the rising tensions around | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
North Korea and their threat to wipe out the United States armada. | :00:43. | :00:46. | |
The Sunday Telegraph goes with the potential threat to America | :00:47. | :00:49. | |
It says that North Korea possesses the capability | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
The Express simply calls it the Deadliest Stand-off. | :00:55. | :01:01. | |
And the Observer leads on an education story, | :01:02. | :01:03. | |
saying that free schools will benefit wealthier regions. | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
The Sunday Times. Sean, this very emotive headline next to a | :01:08. | :01:22. | |
photograph of a soldier saluting at this big display of military | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
hardware in Pyongyang. Trump ready to strike Kim's nuclear sites. | :01:27. | :01:34. | |
Really? President Trump is not afraid to use his military | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
resources. We have seen that as a matter of fact in the past two | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
weeks. What is interesting is that we have seen tensions ratcheting up | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
in the United States and North Korea. Specialists would say that | :01:46. | :01:56. | |
China has got North Korea under control, but the danger is we have | :01:57. | :02:01. | |
had various missile tests. It's like the son and daughter of Star Wars, | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
the notion of missiles being shot down midair. That is causing tension | :02:06. | :02:16. | |
with the North Koreans. We have this described by the Americans overnight | :02:17. | :02:25. | |
as a failed missile launch. Can we relax? No, they will keep trying. | :02:26. | :02:32. | |
The papers are reporting about how dangerous North Korea is, but there | :02:33. | :02:40. | |
were printed before the missile fail. Most experts think that within | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
two or three years they will have the capability to strike at America | :02:45. | :02:53. | |
and this is what the Sunday Times story is talking about. North Korea | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
will do anything when it comes to America. We have not seen any | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
evidence though, apart from increasing American concern. At the | :03:02. | :03:10. | |
moment the issues seems to be that they have the capability to fire | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
missiles, but they don't necessarily have the capability to put a nuclear | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
warhead onto a missile, but they could get that. The US is a big | :03:19. | :03:25. | |
country. It doesn't have to reach Washington, there are places like | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
Hawaii, which are nearer. That's right. One thing that North Korea | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
has missiles that launch satellites into space. There is the | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
technicality of going into the earth's orbit and coming back and | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
striking downwards. They have theoretically got the ability to | :03:46. | :03:55. | |
deliver a nuclear tipped missile. It is a bit precise. The question many | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
people must ask is why are we concerned today and ten months in | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
the future or ten months in the past? That's a good point, one that | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
is echoed on the front of the mail on Sunday. Quite a dramatic | :04:08. | :04:18. | |
headline. Kim's threat to annihilate Trump's Marder. These missiles don't | :04:19. | :04:29. | |
need to reach America or Europe, they could just reach South Korea or | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
Japan to be a threat and that is what makes this escalation is a | :04:34. | :04:43. | |
dangerous. The Chinese are now starting to get a bit more muscular | :04:44. | :04:55. | |
and interested in it. The papers seem to be trying to make Britain | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
part of this, but when not. -- but we're not. We've never been more | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
impotent when it comes to conflict like this and our place at the table | :05:08. | :05:14. | |
is different and Brexit will make it worse. We do still have an | :05:15. | :05:22. | |
international profile. It could be a bigger profile because we run her to | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
coordinate constantly our response with the EU. But we will have two | :05:28. | :05:37. | |
coordinates with Nato, and we are one of the biggest members, along | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
with the United States. Vincent, you make a big point. The Russian | :05:42. | :05:52. | |
ambassador said that Britain is irrelevant and we don't have an | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
independent view. But we do still have a lot of influence. | :05:58. | :06:10. | |
The second any missile start flying, Britain will be involved. Let's get | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
back to the Sunday Times for a change of tempo, as it were. As | :06:17. | :06:21. | |
everyone will know, it is Easter Sunday. Some people will be taking | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
advantage of having a lying, eating Easter eggs. Have you started? Not | :06:28. | :06:37. | |
yet. I'll wait to choose day when they are cheaper. I've got a real | :06:38. | :06:49. | |
chocolate addiction. Now, Theresa May speaks out for Christian | :06:50. | :06:52. | |
Britain. She is the daughter of a vicar. Well, her message is quite | :06:53. | :07:01. | |
similar to that of David Cameron last year. Religious tolerance, let | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
everyone practice their faith without interference. You suggesting | :07:05. | :07:19. | |
that someone is wrote it for that? -- that someone else wrote it for | :07:20. | :07:29. | |
her? Possibly. She has weighed in about the meaning of Easter. Some | :07:30. | :07:48. | |
politicians have been reticent. It is Easter Sunday and the Sunday | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
Times, quite rightly that other papers, reflects on that. If you are | :07:53. | :08:01. | |
a tabloid, you have a bonny, if you are able broadsheet, there is some | :08:02. | :08:15. | |
religious content. Now, a story about builders who have an earth -- | :08:16. | :08:29. | |
on earth some hidden remains of five archbishops of Canterbury. As I | :08:30. | :08:37. | |
understand it, they winched the smartphone down. | :08:38. | :08:49. | |
They say there is an app for everything! It seems they have seen | :08:50. | :09:01. | |
the Archbishop's feel on 30 Coppins. It is a genuinely Easter exclusive. | :09:02. | :09:11. | |
The best quote is from one of the people who found it. He said, we | :09:12. | :09:18. | |
come across a lot of bones in this job, but we knew it was different | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
when we found an Archbishop's crown on one of them. People try to be | :09:24. | :09:32. | |
respectful, but there is a lot of building work going on and it is | :09:33. | :09:40. | |
possible that maybe they did not notice it. One of these archbishops | :09:41. | :09:48. | |
could have overseen the King James Bible. It's a great find. Hopefully | :09:49. | :09:56. | |
at some point we will see the images of this mobile phone being lowered | :09:57. | :10:01. | |
into this sort of vault. Did anyone filmed the people filming it? I | :10:02. | :10:08. | |
often accidentally pressed the video instead of the still because I'm a | :10:09. | :10:13. | |
bit hopeless, even with the smartphone, so they could have done | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
inadvertently. If you are watching and you have the moving pictures, | :10:17. | :10:25. | |
send them to us. If you discover any historical Coppins anywhere, then | :10:26. | :10:38. | |
tweet us. Let us go back to the Observer. As they go back, we | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
haven't looked at it yet. Let's start with this story. Putin set to | :10:45. | :10:56. | |
lose EU crown jewels. I didn't know that the EU had crown jewels. Two of | :10:57. | :11:02. | |
them you may not be familiar with, but it is from the Observer's source | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
correspondent. He is pointing out there could be a double humiliation | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
because we could lose the European banking authority and the European | :11:12. | :11:19. | |
medicines agency, which employs about 1000 people. What does it | :11:20. | :11:26. | |
matter? It's about a talent drain. The Observer is so this is the | :11:27. | :11:37. | |
start, another impact of Brexit. EU -based bodies will go somewhere | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
else. It is making the point that it comes at a time where we will not | :11:41. | :11:47. | |
get the backing from Brussels and the 27 member countries. There is a | :11:48. | :11:56. | |
box and to play devils advocate slightly, they will have two sort of | :11:57. | :11:59. | |
move when Britain is no longer a four member of the EU. Is it a | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
double humiliation that they have moved 18 months early? Maybe it is. | :12:06. | :12:14. | |
One were covering the campaign by Britain to get the Olympics, which | :12:15. | :12:18. | |
was a long time ago, Jacques Chirac said there was an argument about | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
whether the European food agency will be based. I think he was | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
fighting with the Norwegians. It's completely overshadowed his attempt | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
to lobby for Paris because he said some rude things about Norwegian | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
food in the headlines followed him to Singapore. Staying with the | :12:37. | :12:40. | |
Observer, an interesting story about schools, Sean. What you make of | :12:41. | :12:45. | |
this? Free schools boom helps the richest. It's a claim by the | :12:46. | :12:53. | |
National Union of Teachers that money is wasted, to use the words, | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
on free schools and technical colleges and academy schools that | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
have either closed or not opened in the first place. To put it into | :13:02. | :13:07. | |
context, what is not tangible and what is not reported is out of the | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
investment that was made, some good seeds as well as bad seeds were | :13:14. | :13:20. | |
sown. We'd know to what extent it is a total waste of money, but it's a | :13:21. | :13:26. | |
lot cash. There are about 800 of these schools, free from local | :13:27. | :13:29. | |
authority control. But Italy's into the wider issue as well, as we | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
discussed was so much money being spent on free schools, obviously at | :13:36. | :13:38. | |
the moment moving forward with grammar schools as well, it is a | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
politician's dream, isn't it? Yes. Education is becoming a hot potato | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
for the government. Labour research says that 20 of the most deprived | :13:51. | :13:57. | |
areas would get just 12 of the gnu free schools announced. It is | :13:58. | :14:04. | |
middle-class, sharp elbowed parents who can set these up. David Lloyd | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
wrote a good piece in the Observer. He argues for evidence led | :14:09. | :14:16. | |
arguments. People should look at the evidence. Lord Baker, the former | :14:17. | :14:28. | |
Education Secretary, one of his successors Michael Gove thought that | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
these free schools were a failure. There is a big debate about them. | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
They are saying we are good value and are helping children who would | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
not otherwise get a good education, but it seems that the government are | :14:43. | :14:50. | |
less enthusiastic. Free schools are getting far less oversight. You | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
often see people saying, I went to a grammar school and it was great. | :14:57. | :15:05. | |
People who went to secondary modern that seemed to do that. Where did | :15:06. | :15:12. | |
you go? I went to a comprehensive. Comprehensive as well. | :15:13. | :15:23. | |
There is a valid point though that people from the media are from | :15:24. | :15:32. | |
grammar schools. Now, you both have opinions on this. Kelvin MacKenzie's | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
column on Friday. A stackable offence? Yes. Anything stackable in | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
the world of commercial paper is because what you have to look at is | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
the bottom line. There are all sorts of suggestions about what he said. | :15:50. | :16:00. | |
It needs to be investigated. For someone who has worked on tabloids, | :16:01. | :16:03. | |
I do know the oversight that would have gone into that. It should have | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
been seen by sub editors. When Kelvin says the L Word, as in | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
Liverpool, that should set alarm bells ringing. Thank you both. Happy | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
Easter to you. You can go off and relax and read the papers. | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
There's more on all our top stories on the BBC News Channel and the next | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
Time now for a look on the -- at the weather. | :16:34. | :16:52. |